WYSIWYG Editor - Ms-Word & XML errors

Hi there,

I built myself a WYSIWYG editor from the ever-popular, brilliantly-written article on Building Your Own WYSIWYG Editor. A problem that I had been having for a long time, and have not been able to solve, is when I copy and paste contents from Ms-Word into the iframe editor.

When submitted, I receive an XML-type error. It happens occasionally; but 7 times out of 10, the contents are saved nicely without errors.

I understand that it may have to do with Ms-Word's encoding of the word document contents in HTML/XML, but what do I need to do to fix the problem? Help!

This is not an directly answer to your question, but it exist an open source project for something called HTMLArea which uses a ordinary textarea instead of an iframe. If you check out this thread:

http://www.interactivetools.com/ifo...21%21_P1057 2/

you will see that it's made a function for that WYSIWYG-editor which cleans up Word-encoding. You can download and test this rebuilt editor from the webpage to the author of this Add On.